I normally consider a number of things when composing a photo including: the framing; format (portrait or landscape); balance; focal point; DOF; perspective, exposure, etc. — these are conscious considerations based on experience and knowledge of what works. I’ll make these photos and usually know what I like or was trying to capture in them.

Then sometimes I get the sense a composition is “right” without being able in the moment to define why or what makes it “right.” These moments result in photos with “something” but “something” undefined.